Paper documents are still priceless records of the past, even in a digital world. Primary sources stored in local archives throughout Latin America, for example, describe a centuries-old multiethnic ...

Some of the history preserved in old tomes and newspapers may be hiding in between the lines of print. A Weizmann Institute scientist has found that the paper in such collections contains a record of ...

Daniel Genkins has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Paper documents are still priceless records of the past, even in a digital world. Primary sources stored in local archives ...

Michail Takach had bookmarked hundreds of articles and images from the archives of Milwaukee’s two big newspapers, the Milwaukee Journal and the Milwaukee Sentinel, which merged in 1995 to become the ...

You might imagine that digital technology is quietly doing away with the need to store paper. In fact, there's never been a greater need for physical archives, thanks to an increased compliance burden ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. One of the great paradoxes of the digital age is how information has ...

BROCKTON – In 1905, lace curtains were 29 cents a pair, eye glasses cost $2 and newspaper prose was more Faulkner and less Hemingway. “A great, destroying sheet of flame leapt out of the bosom of the ...

Last week’s CDT Chinese 404 Archives podcast highlighted the recent revival of the Silent Observer WeChat account. The account, which for several years has provided a platform for ...

Maybe you remember “21st Century,” the Walter Cronkite-hosted TV show in the 1960s that predicted future technological developments. One episode was devoted to self-driving cars. Oh, how we scoffed at ...